The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court non-obviousness decision, finding that a prior art reference that articulates a goal without explaining how that goal is achieved does not provide a...more
Addressing public accessibility of prior art, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) obviousness decision, finding that widely disseminated materials available on the...more
In an unusual ruling, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted a petitioner’s request for rehearing and instituted inter partes review (IPR) on a previously denied ground, finding that it previously had applied an...more